Random Thoughts XI (Eleven Pipers Piping)

[ImJustKCClone]

My mom was a legal secretary until she was 77 years old, the arthritis in her hands was debilitating. Guessing you have spent a lot of time at a computer in your day too.

Yup. Most of it. Lot of nerve damage to my right arm in particular due to mouse & numberpad use. And the CMC joints in both thumbs are like gravel now. I can type, but I struggle to pick up a piece of paper, dumb as that may sound. Jar lids & doorknobs & bottle caps? Fugeddaboudit!

 

[cowgirl836]

oh hai.

 

[SaraV]

Come here just to say it's quite weird that my parents, 70 yo, and both in fairly good health, have all their funeral arrangements set up. Cremation process, burial plot, headstone...

I mean, that's great because it's one less thing for me or the surviving spouse to have to think about when the unfortunate time comes.

But still weird.

 

[SaraV]

oh hai.

Where have you been, young lady? We've been worried sick about you!

[And if there's a serious answer to this, sorry in advance]

 

[BoxsterCy]

I have entered the bored winter season. And I am bored.

 

[stormchaser2014]

I have entered the bored winter season. And I am bored.

Did you delete Hal or did Hal delete Hal?

 

[wxman1]

Come here just to say it's quite weird that my parents, 70 yo, and both in fairly good health, have all their funeral arrangements set up. Cremation process, burial plot, headstone...

I mean, that's great because it's one less thing for me or the surviving spouse to have to think about when the unfortunate time comes.

But still weird.

A coworker of mine has stage four breast cancer and earlier this year she modified her own funeral arrangements over the phone while sitting at her desk.

 

[BoxsterCy]

Did you delete Hal or did Hal delete Hal?

Yes, it was hai, not hal so edited. Such much fail.

I hate winter.

 

[stormchaser2014]

Yes, it was hai, not hal so edited. Such much fail.

I hate winter.

Hate how lowercase I's look like lowercase L's.

 

[VeloClone]

Yup. Most of it. Lot of nerve damage to my right arm in particular due to mouse & numberpad use. And the CMC joints in both thumbs are like gravel now. I can type, but I struggle to pick up a piece of paper, dumb as that may sound. Jar lids & doorknobs & bottle caps? Fugeddaboudit!

You should have taken a page from my book. I learned to mouse with my non-dominant hand when I had to use our mutual friend's computer. When I ended up with CTS several years ago I just moused with my non dominant hand until it was good and cleared up.

Your solution is good too, I guess. Just retire.

 

[isulive2train]

oh hai.

 

[isulive2train]

Hate how lowercase I's look like lowercase L's.

Illegitimate.

 

[stormchaser2014]

Illegitimate.

iiiiilililililillllllilililililililililil

 

[ImJustKCClone]

oh hai.

I went searching for this one...


But I really couldn't resist this one:

 

[ImJustKCClone]

You should have taken a page from my book. I learned to mouse with my non-dominant hand when I had to use our mutual friend's computer. When I ended up with CTS several years ago I just moused with my non dominant hand until it was good and cleared up.

Your solution is good too, I guess. Just retire.

Didn't have true carpal. Had ganglion cysts at the base of my thumb. 3x removing them made scar tissue. Had to clean that out because I lost all feeling in my fingertips and couldn't hold a glass in my right hand. DeQuervains 2x in the thumb tendon, then my elbow got involved. They removed bone to create more room for the ulnar nerve, I grew it back. Removed it again, I grew it back. Finally they did a transposition. Now the nerve that jangles when you hit your "funny bone" goes inside my arm under the muscle and goes back outside at the wrist. No more funny bone!
I've had splints & casts on my right arm so much I'm basically ambidextrous with the mouse and the number pad (bought a USB number pad to use with my left hand...).

That's another part of why I'm retiring. I'm tired of all that too.

 

[CycloneErik]

Professor left a question that I didn't have a quick and easy answer for.
Had to dig through some notes, reread part of a book, and send another prof an e-mail to make sure I'm not missing something huge.

Basically, nobody ever really wrote about father's view of children in the pre-Civil War world, and her question unknowingly walked into a difficult area to answer.

So I put together my first answer, offered something that will leave future historians of childhood to say "whoa, that was bold" and moved along for now.

 

[carvers4math]

Didn't have true carpal. Had ganglion cysts at the base of my thumb. 3x removing them made scar tissue. Had to clean that out because I lost all feeling in my fingertips and couldn't hold a glass in my right hand. DeQuervains 2x in the thumb tendon, then my elbow got involved. They removed bone to create more room for the ulnar nerve, I grew it back. Removed it again, I grew it back. Finally they did a transposition. Now the nerve that jangles when you hit your "funny bone" goes inside my arm under the muscle and goes back outside at the wrist. No more funny bone!
I've had splints & casts on my right arm so much I'm basically ambidextrous with the mouse and the number pad (bought a USB number pad to use with my left hand...).

That's another part of why I'm retiring. I'm tired of all that too.

I have a friend who is four months older than me and she has had 53 surgeries. Everything from breast cancer to ACL to sinuses and deviated septum. Hopefully you haven't been under the knife/laser that many times.

 

[ImJustKCClone]

I have a friend who is four months older than me and she has had 53 surgeries. Everything from breast cancer to ACL to sinuses and deviated septum. Hopefully you haven't been under the knife/laser that many times.

No...but more times than is typical. And definitely more times than I would have preferred.

 

[NWICY]

Professor left a question that I didn't have a quick and easy answer for.
Had to dig through some notes, reread part of a book, and send another prof an e-mail to make sure I'm not missing something huge.

Basically, nobody ever really wrote about father's view of children in the pre-Civil War world, and her question unknowingly walked into a difficult area to answer.

So I put together my first answer, offered something that will leave future historians of childhood to say "whoa, that was bold" and moved along for now.

So is that a lot of words to say you're BSing your way thru that part?

 

[NWICY]

Went to niece's HS musical tonight she was on crew, but I know enough kids that it was still fun to watch. They did Fiddler on the Roof. They did a really good job.